Followers new and previous of League of Legends, whether or not you’re coming over from Arcane or have performed the MOBA recreation since its inception, will discover one thing to like in Music of Nunu. We had the prospect to speak with Raúl Rubio Munárriz from Tequila Works and Rowan Parker from Riot Forge at Gamescom whereas taking the sport for a spin, and it’s abundantly clear that anybody, a die-hard LoL fan or not, can discover one thing to take pleasure in with Music of Nunu.
Music of Nunu sees you are taking management of a boy and his yeti, Nunu and Willump, as they endure platforming challenges, fight, and puzzles within the frozen Freljord. Just a few different LoL champs will present up on the best way, however the story is actually about their relationship, with Nunu’s character and Willump’s adorably expressive animation taking middle stage.
If, like me, you’ve solely seen Arcane and barely know League of Legends don’t fear, as Parker makes it clear that Music of Nunu is about character and story at its core, with LoL offering the broader universe.
“We have now a really exhausting rule of ‘you don’t have to know something in any respect about League of Legends to take pleasure in one of many video games,’” Parker says. “However in case you do occur to know something about League of Legends, there’s a lot of easter eggs and plenty of enjoyable, which makes it extra rewarding.”
“There’s nonetheless a variety of love for followers of League of Legends within the recreation,” Munárriz of developer Tequila Works provides. “Nevertheless it nonetheless must be a superb recreation to be a enjoyable recreation. It must be a recreation that deserves to be made, so in fact, there’s this love for the followers, however once more if you realize nothing about League of Legends you’ll be able to nonetheless take pleasure in it.”
This philosophy was instantly obvious to me throughout my transient play time, as the main target is on how, mechanically, emotionally, and narratively, Nunu and Willump work together. You’ll both be operating round as Nunu, utilizing his flute from LoL to play Ocarina of Time-style melodies to resolve puzzles, or he’ll soar on Willump’s again for traversal and fight.
Every little thing about Music of Nunu serves these two characters, and between Nunu understanding Willump’s grunts and the Yeti’s personal extremely expressive animations, that grew to become clearer the extra I performed. Whereas I used to be simply within the early recreation, Music of Nunu didn’t need to overcomplicate itself with its mechanics. Parker and Munárriz inform me that Nunu does get extra advanced, however not a lot that the story takes a backseat.
“We actually have a chance to discover and tease out these characters on the earth in additional bespoke, story-driven experiences like this,” Parker provides. “Half of this already existed in League of Legends, however in case you can’t see the seams and the stitches meaning we’ve all been doing a superb job.”
Very similar to Riot’s strategy to Arcane, Music of Nunu gained’t overload you with a great deal of LoL champions. Nunu and Willump gained’t be the one champions to seem within the upcoming spinoff, positive, however don’t count on 50 to indicate up or one thing. The thought as an alternative is for champions to seem in video games outdoors the MOBA when it is sensible for both the story or characters. I really requested Parker about this, who mentioned that Riot Forge by no means needs to “kitchen sink” its LoL spinoffs by including too many champions, and Music of Nunu positively advantages from letting the main target be on the 2 of them.
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